Much has been made of Daesh’s growing desperation as swathes of its so-called caliphate fall in Iraq and Syria. After losing control of the Iraqi city of Mosul in July,... read more →
A suspected Islamist extremist who stabbed two young women to death outside Marseille's main railway station on Sunday afternoon used several false identities and was known to French police as... read more →
Police in Italy are investigating claims that Mafia organisations have teamed up with Daesh to smuggle oil into Europe. Rome-based daily La Repubblica this week told readers detectives suspect the... read more →
Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube has announced a new initiative to prevent people from viewing extremist material on its platform. The experimental effort sees users searching for “violent extremist propaganda”... read more →
Daesh has claimed responsibility for a terror attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester that left 22 people dead, including a number of children. A lone suicide bomber detonated... read more →
Police in Italy have seized 37 million opioid tablets they claim were destined to be shipped to Daesh militants in Libya. Officials said the jihadi group would have sold the... read more →
A coalition of global law enforcement agencies has taken down more than 2,000 items of illegal online terrorist propaganda content in a 48-hour crackdown. Last week, Europol’s Internet Referral Unit... read more →
Like other Sunni extremist terror organisations, Daesh initially received much of its funding from wealthy Arab donors in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar. As the jihadi group grew,... read more →
Police in Greece have seized a massive consignment of amphetamine pills from a drugs factory in Athens that investigators believe was destined to be shipped to Daesh fighters in Syria... read more →
Islamist extremist groups such as Daesh and Boko Haram will not be beaten until western governments tackle the corruption that allows them to recruit new members and thrive, according to... read more →
